Kalinka
Tapestry woven in Aubusson by the Andraud workshop.
With its selvedge, no. 4/6.
1980.
A student of Léon Detroy, Gaston Thiéry is one of the last representatives of the Crozant school of painting.
Settled in Creuse, he took up tapestry in 1965 with the Andraud workshop, to whom he entrusted cartoons inspired by local flora, in a decorative style halfway between the work of Dom Robert and that of Maingonnat, far removed from his landscape paintings influenced by Impressionism.
The title of our tapestry, which will speak especially to music lovers, is a literal evocation (but in Russian!) of the subject, "kalinka" meaning guelder rose.
The tapestry is reproduced in the binder "Aubusson Tapestry" published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Guéret in the early 1980s to illustrate the know-how of the Aubusson workshops.
